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🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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When you go to a concert for your favorite band, and that band has been around for a while, what songs are everybody showing up for? The new ones off of the most recent EP? Or the classics?
And when that iconic song kicks off and the fans go mad... what do they want to hear? A modern reworking? Or the original—"just like the album"?
Today, Fr. Mike makes the case for worshipping God at Mass the way that he asks to be worshipped—not the way that we think he should be worshipped. "O Beauty ever ancient, ever new..."
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0:00.0 | Man, to mess with the mass, to tweak with the mass, to tweak with worship is just going with this one. |
0:08.2 | My name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents. |
0:10.4 | So I recently had the opportunity to go to a in-person live concert. |
0:14.2 | So my oldest sister, she goes on the road with different performing artists. |
0:17.6 | And she does wardrobe for them and some other things for them. |
0:19.6 | And so she's been on the road with this one particular artist for and the band for quite a few years now. |
0:24.6 | A little high-estering COVID, of course, but they're back on the road. |
0:27.6 | And so we had the opportunity to go, she's invited us all down to the concert. |
0:31.5 | And it was really cool because this artist and his band, that date back probably like 40 years. |
0:37.5 | Like they were really big in the early 80s and through the 90s. |
0:40.6 | Like it's kind of a big thing. |
0:41.8 | And so it was fascinating, super fascinating because when you go to a concert like that, |
0:46.8 | where there's this person or this band that has these classic songs, |
0:51.2 | and this guy has a ton of hits, like so many hits, like just it's crazy. |
0:55.2 | Why do people go to a concert from someone like that? |
0:59.2 | No, he keeps making new music, so there's the new songs. |
1:02.3 | But a lot of times what do we do? |
1:03.4 | We show up because we want to hear the old songs, right? |
1:05.0 | We want to hear those classics. |
1:06.0 | And this is a fascinating thing. |
1:07.3 | If you're the artist and you're playing this song every day, |
1:10.4 | multiple times a day maybe even for the last 40 years, |
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